Ability of DFX to find silver

[Ohio Digger]

I watch and hear about all these folks with minelabs finding so much silver. Like they're silver magnets or something. I don't hear or see nearly that much from the ones with Whites machines. I don't doubt that Whites can't find silver. I just wonder why so much seems to be found by minelab users. Silver rings up high on either machine. I doubt that there is iron near every silver so its not that they have that much of an advantage there. I can't wait til the weather warms and dries, and I'm back on my feet. Hopefully will be able to pull out some silver myself soon!!

 

[MrBranton33]

I've found a few silvers this year,in a spot I've hunted with seven different detectors, with the DFX . It seems to be pretty darn good to me Good luck when the weather warms up !

 

[tsmith]

i really like my dfx. just take the time to learn it. i think that is the biggest thing. it will find the silver.


terry

 

[a4wdguy]

Due to taking classes after work, and doing major repairs to the house, I haven't been able to get out much this year. I was only able to take in a couple hundred in clad and my silver haul was rather small. So here is my silver for the past year - no other coins or jewelry shown. All foreign silver coins go in with the clad since they are pretty worthless to me.
BTW, these are all DFX finds. I have yet to find anything other than clad at the beach. Though in all fairness I've only been seven days in the past three years.

 

[Ohio Digger]

Well that's reassuring. What coil are you using to find most of your coins? My stock 12" concentric is miserable in the park.

 

[a4wdguy]

The 6.9 Eclipse is my primary coil, followed by the 5.3. I don't have a lot of confidence in my D2, so I am trying to shake things up a bit by rethinking my programs and making the 950 my primary coil augmented by the 5.3. Not sure how that's going to work out. Today I went out in the pouring rain to try some settings with the 950, but couldn't find a spot that didn't act like a target was under the coil when I tried to balance. There could be trash there, or I might have a problem with my detector. Too cold, wet, and windy to mess with it today.

 

[Ohio Digger]

That's a pain in the butt. That's the one thing I don't like about the DFX. I wish you didn't have to ground balance. Is there a way to bypass it? I read about setting the coarse GEB and fine GEB to certain settings and just go with that. If its stable, great.

 

[mike5853]

There's no magic or secret to the Etrac or finding silver. Any decent detector can hit on silver as long as the coil is over it. You can increase your odds by hunting sites that stand a better chance of holding silver, like old home sites, old parks, etc., and making sure you overlap your coils swings by 50%. I own both and there's no difference on their ability to hit silver. In fact, I once followed behind a friend who was using an Etrac and found at least a 5 coins, 1 silver, that he missed. And thats the point, he missed them, not the Etrac. By the way, I still remind him of that hunt.

 

[Ohio Digger]

Wow that's impressive. The challenge with the DFX is making sure you have it set up properly. I'm still working on that :/

 

[a4wdguy]

That's a pain in the butt. That's the one thing I don't like about the DFX. I wish you didn't have to ground balance. Is there a way to bypass it? I read about setting the coarse GEB and fine GEB to certain settings and just go with that. If its stable, great.

Absolutely. You can set it to any value you like. Then when you turn on the detector, simply pull the trigger and start hunting. Don't forget to turn ground tracking off.

 

[Woodchuck]

DON'T believe evertthing you here about Minelabs ! there are plenty other brands out there that will find silver too !